Has your DC been out to exercise with a friend?

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My eldest Is 13 (almost 14) and has been out in a couple of bike rides with 1 friend at a time. Hes seen 3 different friends.
Youngest is 10 he is asking if he can go out on his bike /scooter with a friend who lives in the same street. Normal circumstances they would be out having bike races up and down anyway, there is a a large green area on the doorstep they regularly play on. Its big enough that they could play safely and still within eye shot.
Would you let your 10yo out on their bike with a friend? Dont know what stopped me from saying yes to the youngest when I said yes to the eldest .......

My 9 year old has. Kids NEED other kids.

DS1 (16) has been out a few times. He met a friend to walk the dog last Wednesday, had a bike ride with another friend on Thursday and today I took him to meet another friend whilst I walked off with her mum. He's sensible, I trust him to socially distance.

DS2 (11) on the other hand... no chance. Not that I think he'd break the rules deliberately ( far from it) but he just wouldn't be careful enough. So until the rules change he won't be meeting friends alone

Also I'm fed up of reading on our local Facebook page about how "all the youths are not social distancing", so I'd rather his face not appear on that! It isn't actually the case, just some people like to tar all young people with the same brush...

My 10 year old is meeting her friend for a distanced walk round the playing fields tomorrow. I’m going to keep an eye from an even longer distant away but dd is pretty hot on the rules

My 12 yo has, I wasn't sure if she'd social distance but she absolutely did take it seriously. It was the highlight of the whole of lockdown, she's been so miserable since school closed.
My 9 yo I don't think would distance, and don't really trust him out with a friend, don't think he'd know what to do, he's struggling with making conversations on facetime, he needs to be doing something really.

My 15 year old has today, went and sat with a friend in her garden. I trust her to keep distanced.

I stupidly said that only high school children were allowed out as my reasoning for saying no which I realise is ridiculous, no I'm thinking I'm being unreasonable. He is otherwise in front a of a screen most of the time whether it be a laptop doing school work or on the ps4/watching TV.

@wonderstuff

I supervise my 9 year old - her and her friend walk or cycle well in front of me and I keep my headphones on so they can have their privacy

12 year old has eight year old hasn’t he doesn’t go out without a parent yet so the one person per household rule makes it tricky.

My dd has been out for a walk with her bf she is having a lot of mental health problems since this started and has developed an eating disorder so I thought seeing someone would help her mental health. Neither of them have seen another soul since lockdown started and they had me walking about 10 m behind them with her brothers so I know they kept their distance.

@Qasd - see my post, I just supervise from a few metres back, you're allowed to use your common sense, we're not living in a police state.

Dh and dd have been out walking with DD’s friend and his dad as we live on the same estate and have a field nearby to walk on. The children haven’t kept strictly 2m apart and they have have kicked a ball to each other (but dd has been at school a few days a week throughout so I’m not too worried, she gets much closer to the kids at school for longer periods) but they wash hands before they go and when get back.

It’s good for them to meet their friends. They need it in my opinion after 2 months.

Definitely let him out, it's such nice weather and they've been without friends for so long it's not good for their mental health. Set some boundaries and keep an eye on him. If he doesn't stick to the boundaries he doesn't go out again.

My 14 year old daughter has been out with 3 friends for walks. My 13 year old son says no one else is allowed out so he hasn’t been able to 😢